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• • • Patacon Pisao

      New York Times Critics' Pick
    • Latin American
    • The specialty here is patacón, the formidable sandwich of the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, bookended not by bread but by unripe plantains that have been fried, smashed and fried again. The small but sleek storefront traces its origins back to 2005, when Liliana Velazquez, a native of Maracaibo, started selling patacónes out of a truck in Inwood, Manhattan
    • 139 Essex Street
      Lower East Side
      646-678-5913
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• • • Shuko

      New York Times Critics' Pick ★★★ 0 4
    • Japanese
    • Jimmy Lau and Nick Kim, the chefs and owners, rose to the top of Masa Takayama’s restaurant group. What’s impressive about their own restaurant, Shuko, is how many times the chefs ring the bells without resorting to clichéd indulgences.
    • 47 East 12th Street
      Greenwich Village
      212-228-6088
  • $$$$

• • • Kao Soy

      New York Times Critics' Pick ★ 0 4
    • Thai
    • Kao Soy sells some of the dishes you know from your local Thai spot, but its mission is to turn New Yorkers on to what Sirichai Sreparplarn, one of the two chefs, calls “the real food from the North.” The northern Thai dishes are scattered around the menu. Most obvious is the excellent kao soy, made in the style of Ms. Supachana’s father back in Chiang Mai.
    • 283 Van Brunt Street
      Red Hook
      718-875-1155
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• • • Patina

      New York Times Critics' Pick
    • African
    • It can be an intimate, if slightly disorienting experience dining at this very small West African restaurant in the Bronx. No menu is presented, at least not in written form, and only a few dishes are available at a time. But the food is delicious: earthy soups and stews over dense, chewy rice and black-eyed peas, with seams of heat from hidden Scotch bonnets.
    • 823 East 169th Street
      Fairmont - Claremont Village
      718-378-7700
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• • • Cosme

      New York Times Critics' Pick ★★★ 0 4
    • Contemporary, Mexican
    • The first New York restaurant from the acclaimed Mexican chef Enrique Olvera pulls off two tough moves at once. First, its approach to Mexican cuisine is modern and relaxed, but without the superficiality that might imply. Second, it has a sharp instinct for what New Yorkers want when they go out for dinner, which isn’t often the case with restaurants opened by chefs from abroad.
    • 35 East 21st Street
      Flatiron
      212-913-9659
  • $$$

• • • Sariling Atin

      New York Times Critics' Pick
    • Philippine
    • Past the shelves of egg cracklets and adobo-flavored corn nuts at Sariling Atin is a modest dining room, where food is ordered turo-turo (point-point) style, as in a cafeteria, and spooned into plastic-foam bowls.
    • 89-12 Queens Boulevard
      Elmhurst
      718-397-1200
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• • • Blue Smoke

      New York Times Critics' Pick ★ 0 4
    • American, Barbecue
    • Since opening in 2002, Blue Smoke has always been a few paces behind the frontrunners of New York barbecue. But when it comes to contemporary Southern cooking, Jean-Paul Bourgeois’s menu is at the head of the pack.
    • 116 East 27th Street
      Kips Bay
      212-447-7733
  • $$$ Menu

• • • LoLo’s Seafood Shack

      New York Times Critics' Pick
    • Caribbean
    • Behind the frosted windows of LoLo’s Seafood Shack, the extemporaneous spirit of the lolo — the kind of open-air barbecue joint found on the beaches and roadsides of St. Martin in the West Indies — is strong.
    • 303 West 116th Street
      Harlem
      646-649-3356
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• • • North End Grill

      New York Times Critics' Pick ★★ 0 4
    • American, French
    • North End Grill has more focus than in its early days. Eric Korsh’s cooking can look rustic, but his embellishments betray a refined sensibility.
    • 104 North End Avenue
      Battery Park City
      646-747-1600
  • $$$$ Menu

• • • Plant Love House

      New York Times Critics' Pick
    • Thai
    • At this cheerful, unassuming storefront, Manadsanan Sutipayakul is cooking for the neighborhood: the clientele is mostly Thai, the dishes comforting rather than showy. Her daughters make the desserts, which include sizzling platters designed to make you gasp or giggle.
    • 86-08 Whitney Avenue
      Elmhurst
      718-565-2010
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